The fallout from The Weeknd‘s unceremonious snub from the 2021 GRAMMYs nominations unveiled Tuesday (November 24) continues.
After Recording Academy Chief Harvey Mason Jr. fielded questions about The Weeknd’s glaring absence from the nod tally (seen here), The Weeknd (born Abel Tesfaye) hit back calling the GRAMMYs and its voting system ‘corrupt.’
Now that Mason Jr.’s taken to press to refute Tesfaye’s claims of corruption, the ‘Blinding Lights’ star’s responding with claims he had already begun negotiations to perform at the ceremony!
Ouch! Details inside:
Taking to Twitter November 25 (as seen above), Abel confirmed he was in talks with the Academy to perform at the 2021 GRAMMYs.
As it’s fairly common practice for the night’s nominees to also take the stage, the singer felt the absence of nominations suggested his presence was unwanted at the event.
The timing raises eyebrows for many, including industry analysts, who believe Abel’s decision to perform at the Super Bowl negatively impacted his chances of performing at the GRAMMYs – a move that allegedly pissed off the voting board.
Mason Jr. vehemently denied such claims, however (as we reported here). Taking to press, he said:
“We were thrilled when we found out he would be performing at the upcoming Super Bowl and we would have loved to have him also perform on the Grammy stage the weekend before.
To be clear, voting in all categories ended well before The Weeknd’s performance at the Super Bowl was announced, so in no way could it have affected the nomination process.”
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The hoopla above came just a day after Weeknd’s manager, Wassim ‘Sal’ Slaiby, affirmed his support of his client.
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The SCAMMYS ain’t SHIIT lol…I don’t care how many high end fashions, hair hats, tresses, weaves, expensive shoes, fragrances and jewelry that will be crammed up in there January 31st lmao…it still looks and smells like pure bullshiiit without The Weeknd 😂 🤳🏽💋
He didn’t play the game and they showed that ass. Ask Rihanna.
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Maybe he should call fraudyonce’s business manager & start writing checks so he can get 9 nominations too. #BOYCOTTTHEGRAMMYS
Giving beyonce 9 nominations for a remix song and a flop video film that tanked on Disney +
Those nominations should have gone to the weeknd
Song of the year
Record of the year
Album of the year
Best pop vocal album
Best pop solo performance-
Best pop vocal collaboration (in ir eyes feat Kenny g)
Best music video short form
Best rnb song( heartless)
Best rnb performance (heartless)
Best engineered album
Shut Up!
How stupid is this clown to cry when he loses.
The measure of a man is defined when things don’t go his way.
If the Grammys are a scam, why even consider performing in the first place. This has been said for years. He only cared when it affected him personally.
All these wack Donald Trumps crying after the fact.
Agreed, the Weeknd’s album had hits to cover all of those categories, but they wanna give them all to that flop just because she bends over for them and throws money at them cuz she cant stand on talent. the grammys proved just how full of sh!!t they really are.
Well too bad love, they all went to Bey 😘😂😂
Money talks.
I’m not a Weeknd fan, but the Grammys have never been more ridiculous with the nominations. I won’t be watching, and my hope is that most other people won’t either.
Same here, i don’t like him at all, I feel he’s getting karma for talking trash about Usher earlier this year, but shutting him out of Grammy nominations while throwing multiple nominations at projects that came & went without a hit is some transparent bull. Right is right, he should have been the most nominated artist this year, period.
Queen Bey Winning
Biden-Harris Winning
Black Girls Winning
Dua Lipa outshining Camicky again
Camicky The Clown Losing
Donald Trump Losing
Life is great.
Egg is on Clarkson/Gayla Q**** Face. 🤡😂
The year is over, still no normani album
8 year old blue ivy got a Grammy winner before normani
😂
GIRL NOBODY MENTIONED NORMANI ITS C******* THAT WAS MENTIONED OR CAN U NOT SPELL 😂
Wow please let go of this joke sis. It’s not working 😹😹 We love Normani, but not all of us are fans haha. Those punch lines aren’t phasing no one. You mad cuz Camel Nose not poppin, never was 😭😂 and now taking another L to the real queen of pop Mz. Lipa. Ugh s****, must suck to be you :/
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The Weak END is a fool, instead of using this snub as MOTIVATION , he sealed his fate. he’ll NEVER be a Grammy winner now 😂
He has 3 dummy
No one wants to see another boring performance from him that nobody will ever rewatch on YouTube anyways.
This Generation is so messy. Yes, He was snubbed and should have been nominated in all honestly, especially considering who was actually nominated. But at least take it with grace and dignity.
My thoughts exactly like no matter the snub as Aaliyah would sing “ Dust yourself off and try again “ his biggest idol MJ did it when they ignored Off The Wall so he hit the whole world with Thriller – there was no absolute ignoring that ERA especially MTV too. I love The Weeknd but I can’t help noticing him and others are becoming way too “ entitled “ when past legends never gotten half the Recognition or acclaim they have 💯💯
We don’t care my fav was snubbed countless times and took it with grace and dignity now folks favs getting snubbed left right and center y’all crying when it affects y’all favs. The Grammys ain’t s*** but steady having meltdowns? I’m loving the humble pie 2020 is serving. Heck 2020 is a Beyoncé Stan too. She is leaving the year on a high. Shame some can’t relate 💅🏾
Imagine Bey throwing a temper tantrum for not winning Best Album for Lemonade. No class these days. Weeknd handing himself his own L.
I don’t like this man. And let’s not forget drake featured him on his second album and that was when The Weeknd was really introduced to the US. And now he’s beefing with drake! He thinks he’s Michael Jackson, yet nobody older than 25 gives a damn about his music or albums. He’ll go down as one of the worst Super Bowl halftime shows ever.
Mark my words.. this will be the lowest rated Grammy Awards by likely double digits.
Not only Weeknd fans but the BTS fans are not too excited w/ their ONE nomination. Didnt they have a breakout year in 2020?
This is horrible advance press for the ceremony. 🤣😂
I hope so too, i hope this is their lowest rated show in history, they think nominating that roach a million times is gonna bring them ratings, those BTS fans will fix that for sure lol.
The Weeknd was definitely snubbed. Even though I didn’t like the album, the single was MASSIVE.
& don’t bring Beyoncé into this. She didn’t pay for her awards. There’s so many times that Grammys snubbed Beyonce, y’all act like she always win.
Lies. That b!!tch pays for her awards, just like she fakes her streaming numbers. kanye said it too.
Well if she pays for them why didn’t she win them all? Why didn’t she buy album of the year? What sense does it make to only buy a little bit?
Abel can have some socially distant seats. Perhaps study up on “Playing the Game: Chapters Grace, Dignity, & Winning”. Get off social media and believe that the people will catch up if what he does is indeed that good…
What Abel means is he said his preconditions for performing were nominations for album and record of the year.
Awww look at the WEAK END crying like the p***y he sounds like when he sings 😂😂😂 KING X would never
Awww look at the WEAK END crying like the p***y he sounds like when he sings 😂😂😂 KING X would never
Overrated, entitled trash. The weeknd is so arrogant.
Who cares? The Grammys don’t mean anything anymore.
His manager’s IG caption reads more like a political statement re: his country of Lebanon than the Grammy’s. Another migrant Canadian with a huge ego managed by an Arab show-off. I–for one–an happy the accidental star (that’s why he’s always in bandages, right?) got overlooked; his album is nothing to write home about compared to the first 3.